School is starting which reminds me of the speech my parents gave every year around this time – “We can teach you right from wrong …
Training and Development
These posts focus on workplace training and employee development as part of business leadership and management.
Teamwork Clichés
There’s no “I” in “team”. We’ve all heard the statement a thousand times. Motivational companies have made millions printing it on coffee mugs. If a …
Email Maturity Level
I’ve been frustrated lately by email. Not how much email I receive (although that can be overwhelming) but how some people take days, if not …
Are Deadlines Really Guidelines?
I love the scene in Pirates of the Caribbean when Captain Barbossa tells Elizabeth that the pirate code is really more ‘like guidelines’. It’s a …
5 Things Every Business Person Needs to Know (Part 5)
You may have already guessed the last topic in my ‘need to know’ series…yep, you need to know BUSINESS. And, there are two kinds of …
Sudoku Means Business
Thank you to William U at Talent Alchemy for Tweeting this story. It seems that Westin Hotels has created Sudoku Sanctuaries at four of their …
5 Things Every Business Person Needs to Know (Part 4)
I was thinking about Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto today. Well, not so much Pareto as his famous saying that 20% of the people own 80% …